States with high numbers of in-movers from other states didn’t necessarily have high shares of recent arrivals in 2023. Learn more.





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Which States Had the Highest Shares of Newcomers?

If you lived in the District of Columbia, North Dakota, Alaska, Idaho, or Vermont in 2023, chances are relatively high you or your neighbor had moved there from another state within the prior year.

But if you lived in California, a much larger state that attracted many more movers from other states over the same period, the likelihood of being in proximity with a recent in-mover, or someone who arrived in that state from another state within the prior year, was slimmer.

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Part of it has to do with the size of a state’s population. Two states can have the exact same number of movers from other states but their presence in a smaller state will be proportionately higher than in a more populous state.

The share of recent movers to a state is calculated by taking the number of in-movers in the past year and dividing it by the population 1 year and over.

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